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So on Thursday, my 2 year old cat Lotus was acting very strangely so I took him to the vet. It turned out he had a blocked urethra caused by feline idiopathic cystitis. It was unblocked using a catheter while he was under anesthetic, and the catheter was kept in for 12 hours while he was kept on an IV. I got him back last night, 3 hours after the catheter was removed. He is on 1 mg Prazosin, 0.3 g Buprenorphine, 62 mg Clavamox, and Ofloxacin eyedrops (they somehow hurt his eye while he was at the vet! poor guy!).
I got him back home around 10 last night, and he seemed terrible. He was just groaning, couldn't stand being touched, and didn't seem to realize he was home. I laid him on a towel by his litterbox, and he hadn't moved 9 hours later the next morning and had peed on the towel.
It's now almost 1 the next day, about 13 hours since I got him home, and I've only seen him stand twice. The rest of the time he just lays there looking miserable. He's eaten a tiny bit of wet food, but the only water he's had has been given to him through a dropper. He's extremely lethargic and has just been laying in his bed (that I put him in), either staring into space or sleeping.
I called the vet 3 times and they acted like he should be his normal self by now. I'm struggling to see how this could be true considering all the medication he's on and what he's just been through. The fact that the vet thinks he should be "fine" or acting "normal" is concerning me. They said that he shouldn't be exhibiting unusual behavior but again, I feel like unusual behavior should be considered normal at this point. But again, I'm not a vet, so I don't know.
I just wanted to make this post before taking him into the vet again, because I don't want to pay for another visit as it's already put a pretty big strain on me financially. Could anyone share their experiences with this?
So on Thursday, my 2 year old cat Lotus was acting very strangely so I took him to the vet. It turned out he had a blocked urethra caused by feline idiopathic cystitis. It was unblocked using a catheter while he was under anesthetic, and the catheter was kept in for 12 hours while he was kept on an IV. I got him back last night, 3 hours after the catheter was removed. He is on 1 mg Prazosin, 0.3 g Buprenorphine, 62 mg Clavamox, and Ofloxacin eyedrops (they somehow hurt his eye while he was at the vet! poor guy!).
I got him back home around 10 last night, and he seemed terrible. He was just groaning, couldn't stand being touched, and didn't seem to realize he was home. I laid him on a towel by his litterbox, and he hadn't moved 9 hours later the next morning and had peed on the towel.
It's now almost 1 the next day, about 13 hours since I got him home, and I've only seen him stand twice. The rest of the time he just lays there looking miserable. He's eaten a tiny bit of wet food, but the only water he's had has been given to him through a dropper. He's extremely lethargic and has just been laying in his bed (that I put him in), either staring into space or sleeping.
I called the vet 3 times and they acted like he should be his normal self by now. I'm struggling to see how this could be true considering all the medication he's on and what he's just been through. The fact that the vet thinks he should be "fine" or acting "normal" is concerning me. They said that he shouldn't be exhibiting unusual behavior but again, I feel like unusual behavior should be considered normal at this point. But again, I'm not a vet, so I don't know.
I just wanted to make this post before taking him into the vet again, because I don't want to pay for another visit as it's already put a pretty big strain on me financially. Could anyone share their experiences with this?